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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode"> <b class="">Three
full time, fully funded PhD positions: Digital conversational
agents ("chatbots") supporting a healthy lifestyle</b>.
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<div class="">We are looking for three enthusiastic PhD
researchers for a national research project “Look Who’s
Talking? Towards Engaging Long-Term Interactions with
Conversational Agents”, funded by the Netherlands Organization
for Scientific Research (NWO), within the Open Competition
Digitilisation (SSH). </div>
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<div class="">This 4-year project aims to develop and evaluate
digital conversational agents ("chatbots") that are capable of
understanding human utterances and can automatically generate
appropriate, human-like responses. The main aim of our project
is to study the long-term ‘relationships’ between such
conversation agents and human users, with the goal of
assisting people to engage in a healthier lifestyle (in
particular, smoking cessation and safe sex promotion).</div>
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<div class="">“Look Who’s Talking” is a collaboration with key
academic expertise on communication, technology and
computational linguistics (Tilburg University), artificial
intelligence and human-machine interaction (Radboud
University), and behavioural change, health technology and
psychology (University of Amsterdam), and with national
stakeholders regarding smoking cessation (Trimbos Institute)
and sexual health (Soa Aids Nederland). </div>
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<div class="">Three PhDs will be hired on this project, one at
each of the participating universities. PhD1 will lay the
technical foundation for the project, while the emphasis for
PhDs2 and 3 is on developing and evaluating the applications.
Although the three PhD candidates will work on related but
different sub-projects, a close collaboration between the PhD
candidates is important for successful completion of the
project. In collaboration with the project supervisors, the
PhD candidates will also work on a paper regarding the ethical
implications of the use of conversational agents in health
promotion.</div>
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<div class="">All PhD projects are intended to start before the
summer.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">PhD1 Engaging long-term interactions
with conversational agents</b></div>
<div class="">Location: Radboud University </div>
<div class="">More information: prof. dr. Tibor Bosse (<a
href="mailto:t.bosse@ru.nl" class="">t.bosse@ru.nl</a>)</div>
<div class="">Apply <a
href="https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1092173"
class="">here</a>.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">PhD2 Conversational agents supporting
smoking cessation</b></div>
<div class="">Location: Tilburg University</div>
<div class="">More information: prof. dr. Emiel Krahmer (<a
href="mailto:e.j.krahmer@tilburguniversity.edu" class="">e.j.krahmer@tilburguniversity.edu</a>)</div>
<div class="">Apply <a href="https://www.tiu.nu/16656">here</a>.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">PhD3 Conversational agents promoting
safe sex</b></div>
<div class="">Location: University of Amsterdam</div>
<div class="">More information: dr. Gert-Jan de Bruijn (<a
href="mailto:g.j.debruijn@uva.nl" class="">g.j.debruijn@uva.nl</a>)</div>
<div class="">Apply <a
href="https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/02/20-134-phd-position-on-engaging-long-term-interactions-with-conversational-agents.html?z"
class="">here</a>.</div>
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